[Olpc-socal] Sugar & GDM on Ubuntu - Re: Apple iBooks Clamshell

[Jessica Koetters]

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-Jessica

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
> If I am reading this right, it is potentially huge!  Are you saying that you
> have been able to run a version of Sugar on a PPC (Power PC)?  There are so
> many of these older Apple G3 machines still out in homes and schools, that
> having the ability to bring "new life" to them through using Sugar would be
> a very important step towards bringing this open source software to
> thousands (or more) children.
> Would it be possible for someone to write up a very detailed, non-technical
> explanation of how to do this to post on the Sugar Labs and or OLPC wikis?
> Caryl
>
>> From: info at whizman.com
>> To: olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org
>> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:15:39 -0700
>> Subject: [Olpc-socal] Sugar & GDM on Ubuntu - Re: Apple iBooks Clamshell
>>
>> We are pleased to say that Sugar is now running on Ubuntu-Lucid-10.04 for
>> us.
>> As far as I can tell, the versions of Sugar we have are the same as
>> originally reported in
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542338
>> To the best of my understanding, it started working after Ubuntu updates
>> applied a patch to gdm
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/542345
>>
>> Randall
>> http://whizman.com
>>
>>
>> _____________________________________________________________________________
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>>
>> From: Whizman Software Solutions
>> To: "OLPC Southern California OSSIE" <olpc-socal at lists.laptop.org>
>> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:59:11 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Olpc-socal] Apple iBooks Clamshell
>>
>> Idea: try education-desktop-sugar on Debian on PPC.
>> If you have a chance to try that, I would be very interested to hear
>> the result. We have no PPC hardware, and we have tried sugar-emulator
>> on Ubuntu, only, not on other distros.
>>
>> In our testing, Sugar worked in Ubuntu 10.04alpha, both as a session and
>> when started as an application under GNOME; but no longer worked under
>> 10.04beta nor 10.04 release.
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